Wash. boy in critical after getting buried in sandbox
12:21 PM PDT on Monday, March 10, 2008
By AP and king5.com Staff
EVERETT, Wash. -- A 10-year-old boy who stopped breathing when his friends buried him in a backyard sandbox remains in critical condition at a Seattle hospital.
Cody Porter
There was a sandbox in the back yard, and Quantrille said the TV cartoon "Narutu" gave Cody and his friends the idea of burying him head first in the sand. "They watched a cartoon where they were like sand masters or something and they can manipulate sand or something like that. They came up with the idea that if he were to do this then he would be able to be one of them," he said.
Quantrille said Cody was buried roughly from his head to his chest. At some point, he began thrashing around, but the children apparently thought he was playing.
Eventually they figured out that something was wrong. They pulled Cody out and called the adults inside the home, who administered CPR until an aid car arrived.
Cody was taken first to a local hospital and then to Children's Hospital in Seattle. Family friends told KING-TV his condition was grave.
Sheriff's detectives interviewed all of the children and their parents, and they said it was a tragic accident.
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